Scottish Midland Fed race programme

[Delboy]

AGM was held last night and we are still going down the west/centre route

We start on 19.04.08 LOCKERBIE, APPLEBY,APPLEBY,SKIPTON,HALIFAX,UTTOXETER,LEICESTER,NEWBURY ( S.N.F.C )APPLEBY,EASTBOURNE ( S.N.F.C ) 21.06.08     Y.BS  26.07.08 LOCKERBIE,LOCKERBIE,APPLEBY,APPLEBY,SKIPTON,HALIFAX

 

 

[HOMER49]

AGM was held last night and we are still going down the west/centre route

We start on 19.04.08 LOCKERBIE, APPLEBY,APPLEBY,SKIPTON,HALIFAX,UTTOXETER,LEICESTER,NEWBURY ( S.N.F.C )APPLEBY,EASTBOURNE ( S.N.F.C ) 21.06.08     Y.BS  26.07.08 LOCKERBIE,LOCKERBIE,APPLEBY,APPLEBY,SKIPTON,HALIFAX

 

Hi delboy

Thought your members would have had enough of the west route last year

Cheers

Homer 49

 

 

[Guest TAMMY_1]

Hi delboy

Thought your members would have had enough of the west route last year

Cheers

Homer 49

 

 

Long as you take care of ours Homer 49  

[HOMER49]

Hi Tam

01698 8825** is the number to call for help   ;)

Cheers

Homer 49

[wullie semple]

AGM was held last night and we are still going down the west/centre route

We start on 19.04.08 LOCKERBIE, APPLEBY,APPLEBY,SKIPTON,HALIFAX,UTTOXETER,LEICESTER,NEWBURY ( S.N.F.C )APPLEBY,EASTBOURNE ( S.N.F.C ) 21.06.08     Y.BS  26.07.08 LOCKERBIE,LOCKERBIE,APPLEBY,APPLEBY,SKIPTON,HALIFAX

 

 

that will be all the youngsters lost in two races at lockerbie

[me]

Hi Tam

01698 8825** is the number to call for help   ;)

Cheers

Homer 49

 

 

Whit number is that the Lanarkshire branch of the Samaritans?

 

[ALF]

AGM was held last night and we are still going down the west/centre route

We start on 19.04.08 LOCKERBIE, APPLEBY,APPLEBY,SKIPTON,HALIFAX,UTTOXETER,LEICESTER,NEWBURY ( S.N.F.C )APPLEBY,EASTBOURNE ( S.N.F.C ) 21.06.08     Y.BS  26.07.08 LOCKERBIE,LOCKERBIE,APPLEBY,APPLEBY,SKIPTON,HALIFAX

 

 

Cant believe that your fed has voted to go that way again :-/ : : :

[Guest Gareth Rankin]

A wee pergrine told me that his fellow pals have uprooted from the Solway and Cumbria area to move over to Kelso Otterburn for a season anybody know if this is true. ;D ;D :D ;).

[frank-123]

not be long both lanarkshire and midland will  find out if percy has moved

it could all end in  :'( or we could be  

 

[Guest]

A wee pergrine told me that his fellow pals have uprooted from the Solway and Cumbria area to move over to Kelso Otterburn for a season anybody know if this is true. ;D ;D :D ;).

 

was that the same wee pergrine that was diving into our doos at otterburn last year  :-/ :-/

[Delboy]

 

that will be all the youngsters lost in two races at lockerbie

 

Not my ybs Wullie, my first race is Appleby.I cannot believe we are going to the solway area again.EFFIN MADNESS

[Delboy]

Hi delboy

Thought your members would have had enough of the west route last year

Cheers

Homer 49

 

 

I dont know what they are thinking of Homer.I can only tell you that every member in our club lost over 50 ybs last year from the solway

[Delboy]

not be long both lanarkshire and midland will  find out if percy has moved

it could all end in  :'( or we could be  

 

:'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( GUARANTEED

[cemetary]

I cant understand why they are going down that route if they lost all these pigeons last year, more thought i think on the route to fly.

 

More  :'( :'( to follow i think.

 

Does it make any difference where the birds fly from, percy is always there aboots. ??) ??)

[Guest Gareth Rankin]

 

:'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( GUARANTEED

 

Delboy

 

You should know that nothing is guaranteed in the pigeon game ;) and also could you please stop scaring the Lanarkshire men or we will have no birds at the first race. ;D ;D

[ALF]

 

Delboy

 

You should know that nothing is guaranteed in the pigeon game ;) and also could you please stop scaring the Lanarkshire men or we will have no birds at the first race. ;D ;D

 

Do you think there will be many at the 1st race anyway Gareth because i certainly dont : :

[Guest Gareth Rankin]

 

Do you think there will be many at the 1st race anyway because i certainly dont : :

 

Hi Alf

 

4,000 which will be around 2,000 down from the usual, hopefully we will get a wind that will allow the pigeons to get upto the 1300 vel + which will help in the type of race we will get.

 

Looking back to 2004 the racing down the west was really good starting at the first race the club sent 297 building upto 600 at the 4th race and by the time we got to 6th race the club was still sending 497. To be fair the winds were southerly and the pigeons done vel of 1300+ every week.

 

Time will tell.

In an ideal world we would should be sending our pigeons down the east but it was a democratic decission by the members to go down the West.

 

cheers

Gareth

 

 

[ALF]

 

Hi Alf

 

4,000 which will be around 2,000 down from the usual, hopefully we will get a wind that will allow the pigeons to get upto the 1300 vel + which will help in the type of race we will get.

 

Looking back to 2004 the racing down the west was really good starting at the first race the club sent 297 building upto 600 at the 4th race and by the time we got to 6th race the club was still sending 497. To be fair the winds were southerly and the pigeons done vel of 1300+ every week.

 

Time will tell.

In an ideal world we would should be sending our pigeons down the east but it was a democratic decission by the members to go down the West.

 

cheers

Gareth

 

 

Gareth

 

I think we may get away with it a bit in old bird racing but i dont think our y/b's will and i wont be sending mine west thats for sure.

 

If percy turns the old birds in dumfires you'll get most of them later on that night or the next day,but if he turns the convoy of y/b's early on in a race god help them : :

 

Thats why i would much rather go east ( yes i know east has it's fair share of peregrines aswell ) but i would rather the pigeons had the whole country to try and get away from it and not just the width of 1 or 2 football fields that it will have coming up through the hills in the west

 

Alan

[Delboy]

 

Hi Alf

 

4,000 which will be around 2,000 down from the usual, hopefully we will get a wind that will allow the pigeons to get upto the 1300 vel + which will help in the type of race we will get.

 

Looking back to 2004 the racing down the west was really good starting at the first race the club sent 297 building upto 600 at the 4th race and by the time we got to 6th race the club was still sending 497. To be fair the winds were southerly and the pigeons done vel of 1300+ every week.

 

Time will tell.

In an ideal world we would should be sending our pigeons down the east but it was a democratic decission by the members to go down the West.

 

cheers

Gareth

 

Your spot on Gareth about 2004.It wasnt too bad but there still were a few horror stories.I know, you get the horror stories on the east as well.2005,06 and 07 have got worse every year, down the west.( especially with ybs )I hope this trend ends in 2008, but I dont think so.Gareth, you think the birdage will be down for the first couple of races, well that is bad business for the fed as we all know the early races are meant to subsidise the longer ones.I am not having a go at the Lanarkshire fed, as the Midland are doing exactly the same thing.We cant blame the management because its the voting majority at the AGMs that make these crazy decisions.

 

[johno]

shu laid out in excess of 30k to have atudy done by an expert team. result was advice to avoid the west route and try to avoid certain time slots. around end of may. what do we do we go west and fly at all times. spend a fortune and ignore the result. welcome to doomanland. democratic vote means exactly that. everyone present had a vote. what they voted for is the crux of the matter. democracy it would appear seems to have very little considration for the birds and defininately pays no attention to well informed experts regardless of what they cost.

[Guest TAMMY_1]

 

 

Whit number is that the Lanarkshire branch of the Samaritans?

 

Close enough  

[wullie semple]

 

Not my ybs Wullie, my first race is Appleby.I cannot believe we are going to the solway area again.EFFIN MADNESS

 

dell boy well you should have youngsters left to race my mate races with the midland fed and he told me it is like just starting up every year as he has lost 3/4 of his team every year and he is not alone as his members are the same some members have lost as much as 50 and 60

[rednyellow]

the midland fed had a great opportunity to move from the racepoints in the solway but alas same old story, word on the street was a move slightly east for the first 100 mls then cut back in appleby area, a stout horse for a stye brae required probably :(   lets hope the pigeon gods give us a wee hand in 2008!

[Whats it called Cumbernauld]

East or west is a question that has dogged our sport for as long as i can remember.I have been away from birds for quite a number of years,so long until tonight i forgot some of the main reasons behind me quiting the sport. Now its all coming back to me. The midland fed is no longer the midland fed it was all these years ago.

 

Our great sport was never about divide and conquer. those who are narrow minded enough to put there own needs to have an advantage before the needs of the birds simply don't deserve a vote. It is to these fancies who have over the years split the midland fed for there own gain that much of the blame lies.

 

The pigeon gods will indeed be much needed

[Delboy]

East or west is a question that has dogged our sport for as long as i can remember.I have been away from birds for quite a number of years,so long until tonight i forgot some of the main reasons behind me quiting the sport. Now its all coming back to me. The midland fed is no longer the midland fed it was all these years ago.

 

Our great sport was never about divide and conquer. those who are narrow minded enough to put there own needs to have an advantage before the needs of the birds simply don't deserve a vote. It is to these fancies who have over the years split the midland fed for there own gain that much of the blame lies.

 

The pigeon gods will indeed be much needed

 

You are spot on m8, the welfare of the pigeon should be paramount but it obviously isnt in many federations today.